Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: There’s something disquieting about the trendiness of Earth Day. I mean, I’m glad it comes each year and that some consciousness-raising gets done. But compared to the intensity and progressive edge of its first years, something is lacking – like perhaps the exigencies of the change required in [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: What kind of world do we want to live in? What kind of world are we making? You may have seen this story – the air pollution in Hong Kong reached historic levels this week, air too dangerous for anyone to breathe. Reported the NY Times: Air pollution [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: …we westerners have lost our ancestral knowledge of how to survive on the Earth. — Chellis Glendinning The more I delve into the underpinnings of our ecological crisis, the larger, deeper, more profound the picture becomes. Now I’m reading a book that takes me right back to the [...]
Fostering Ecological Hope Today from Margaret Swedish: This year the number of hungry in our world increased to 1.02 billion – nearly one in 7 people. Folks who have followed this blog, or who know me from my previous work (director of the Religious Task Force on Central America and Mexico until 2004 – see [...]